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Aram Roston and Cate Brown in Washington

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead

Rubble on a rolling, green and brown landscape.
Homes and buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on 13 December 2025. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images

Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in the shattered Gaza Strip, according to sources and documents reviewed by the Guardian.

With three-quarters of Gaza’s structures damaged or destroyed by two years of Israeli strikes, the rebuilding effort to come – estimated at $70bn by the United Nations – could be a rich prize for companies that specialize in construction, demolition, transportation and logistics.

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